President Kennedy had a wholesome, widely discussed, and largely deserved reputation for his interest in women.... But no Presiden...t, however young and energetic, could possibly have gotten around to all the ladies in Washington, New York, and Hollywood who made claim to his affections after he died.... Such was the force of Jack Kennedy and the manner of his death that anyone associated with him, even the pretenders, assumed added glamour and interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To think that I very nearly didn't go.... What if I'd been here--out riding in Virginia or somewhere--Thank God I went with him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but ...brings danger to the many.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The drama of the assassination has enlarged the personalities of both men, so it is as if each of them could have saved us from th...e troubled history that followed their deaths. Had Lincoln lived, many historians believe, his generous spirit would have labored in peace, as mightily as it had in war, to heal the nation's wounds, and perhaps much of America's tortured post-Civil War history would have been different. After Lincoln's death, a profound despair seized the nation, along with a deep bitterness that lasted for years, but America endured and the process of nation-building went on. Had John F. Kennedy lived, Robert Kennedy once told a reporter, the 1960s would have been different because he would have listened more sensitively to the young. It is somehow reassuring that even in the desperate hours after each assassination, a shaken nation, gripped with near-panic, gathered its will, looked to its Constitution, and reasserted political order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know a great deal about life in Washington for women--I spent a summer there once working in the White House, and my main ...memories of the experience have to do with a very bad permanent wave I have always been convinced kept me from having a meaningful relationship with President Kennedy ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans, all I have I would have given gladly... not to be standing here today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »